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In my work in community engagement and consultation, I am interested in the ways in which communities or groups can address and talk about climate change – or any kind of positive change. A thread in this project has been about conversation and negotiation. Not that I have done any substantive work in this area […]

At the Right to the City Symposium held in April 2011, Jesse Adams Stein, blogger of Penultimo, convened a panel to discuss placeblogging. In framing the event, Jesse blogged “place blogs enact a very specific act of watching, witnessing, monitoring, recording, sometimes celebrating, sometimes protesting – on a very local level.” The panel was comprised […]

In her keynote address for the Right to the City Symposium, held in April 2011, Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Margaret Crawford, made an unusual plea. She asked that the urge towards a ‘hypercritical’ response be quelled to enable a different approach to exploring […]

A 2009 exhibition and publication project explored conditions in the inner city Sydney suburb of Redfern as an exploded field of contestation. Grounded in community and activism, this arts project presented diverse approaches adopted by artists and urban practitioners to undermine the ideological rendering of urbanism and urban decision making. There Goes The Neighbourhood: Redfern […]

In 2008, as part of its commitment to design research, architectural and urban design company Architectus coordinated a practice-based ideas think tank on Retrofitting Cities for Climate Change. It is a compelling example of industry and design leadership in response to climate and environmental change: it is also a way of recognising that architects and […]

Talk, of course, doesn’t stop in one forum. It’s viral, conversations continue and spread. Participants are now able to tweet these events as the hashtag comes into its own. Twitter is a powerful network in which to engage in or spread a public conversation about cities and place. Increasingly, conversations and ‘roundtables’ happen on Twitter, […]

In Australia, there is a dynamic landscape of forums, symposia and seminars – not just those organised to meet the requirements of academic institutions, but gatherings of cultural practitioners from a cross-section of practices. Organisations with broad cultural engagements, like d/Lux Media Arts, contemporary artspaces and cultural festivals, have a strong track record in hosting […]

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